Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-02-09
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
Summary of Proceedings Of Both
Houses at the National
Capital.

IN the Senate on the 1st inst. the credentials
of Aleernon S. Paddock, Senator from Ne
braskn for the term commencing March T. 1887,
were presented. Resumed consideration of the
sundry civil Appropriation bill. Various amend
ments presented and adopted among
them one to appropriate s3,0ol for the purchase
of Carl Guther 8 picture entitled Farming in Dn-
kota, and another approprating S3l, OH for the
posing Of the amended bill this Senate adjourned
In the House, duplicated copies Of the Senate
bill FORGETTING certain PORTIONS OF the Northern
Pacific land grant were asked for. The naval
appropriation bill was reported and referred to
committee of the whole A bill granting PEN
sion to Walt Whitman was reported and calen-
dared, were also adverse reports on the Sen
ate bills granting pensions to the widows Of
Gen. Logan and Gen. Blair. by vote OF Ia
+, = sns Ply ,ns pssssa fssa1S as
the District of Columbia. At the
evening session a bill was passed
regulatng the pny OF army and
the support Of their families. Also the House
bill authorizing the Fremont, Elkhorn aud Mis-.
souri, Valley Railroad Company to build it's road
across Fort Meade military reservation. bill
was presented authorizing the Secretary OF War
to credit the Territory of Dakota with S27,6j)
for ordnance and ordnance stores issued to said
Territory. Adjourned.
THE Senate committee agriculture, on the
I'd inst, reported back favorably the House bill
appropriating Sln00 for special distribution OF
seeds in the drought stricken sections OF Texas.
Mr.. Wilson, cf Iowa, offered resolution calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury for certain
information as to railroad land grants in Iowa.
Consideration of the sundry civil appropriation
bin was resumed, aud passed after the adoption
of an amendment increasing the appropriation
for the survey of public lands from Sfp,Uu TO
SO 900. The House bill to bridge the Missouri
River at Omaha and Council Bluffs was passed
by the Senate. Adjourned. In the House the
credentials of Mr.. Price, from the Eight Con
gressonal District of Wisconsin. to fill the va
cnncy caused by the death of his father, were
presented, and Mr.. Price qualified The bill au-
thorzing the construction Of passenger bridge
across the Mississippi at Dubuque was passed
The House refused, by vote OF iS6 yeas TO ilo
nays-not the constitutional two-thirds major
ity-to pass over the Presidents veto the bill
pensioning Carter w, 1iler, whose son died in
Andersonyille prison. A Joint resolution was
reported aud referred authorizing the Secretary
of the Navy to advertise for bids for the con-
struction of cruiser No. !, and to contract for
its construction and equipment not lnciuotng
armament, at n cost of not exceeding 81 ,3uD,0O0.
A bill was introduced to provide foi tho manu-
facture by Americans of first-class modern guns
for the navy and sea-coast defense, and uppro-
priatng 80, 600 therefor. Adjourned.
IN the Senate on the Sd Mr.. Sawyer OF Wis
consin, and Mr.. Whitthorne, Of Tennessee. pre-
sented their credentials. Mr.. Evarts introduced
a bill for the purchase of John Erickson's De-
stroyer and ten enlarged steel vessels of the
type for defending the harbors OF the
United States, appropriating slla coo and 81
0oO000 for these purposes respectively The
bill of last session to discharge the Committee
on Pensions from further consideration OF the
bill removing the limitation on applications for
arrears OF pensions brought up and placed
26. The bill to prohibit members OF
Congress from netting as attorneys for
subsidized railroad companies was
der discussion when the Senate went
into executive session. Mr. Evar.s opposed the
BILL but favored the amendment offered as IA
substitute, which makes it unlawful for a men,
Der OF Congress to appear as counsel or attorney
for subsidized railroads except in state or Fed
eral Courts in suits in which the United States
is not party. The House Committee Of the
Whole took up the pleuro-pneuinonia bill. An
amendment striking out the provision for de-
structon of diseased animals and providing in
stead that such animals shall be qnarantined and
destroyed If necessary for scientific investigation
by scientific experts was agreed to. MS was also an
amendment reducing from three-quarters to
one-half the value Of an animal so destroyed as
compensation for the owner. Without conclud-
ing consideration OF the bill the committee rose
and the House adjourned
ON the 4th inst, the Senate passed the
war-tax refunding bill with only one dissenting
vote, that of Senator Van Wyck. Consideration
of the railway attornev bill was resumed. A
large number Of amendments were offered, but
one or two of which were accepted
The bill finally passed - yeas, ~ 80
In the House, Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania,
from the Committee on Rules, reported reso-
luton discharging the Committee of the Whole
from further considering the Senate bill for the
retirement and re-coinage OF trade dollars, aud
making the bill a special order in the House for
Feb IL. Adopted, The House at the evening
session passed thirty pension bills, and OF 10 40
adjourned.
THE Senate on the 5th passed the hill author
izing the construction Of a wagon and foot pas
senger bridge across the Mississippi ut Du-
buque. Sixty pension bills were also passed,
among them the House bill granting pension
OF go per month to the widow of Brig. Gen.
Measher, and one increasing the pension Of the
widow of Col Loren Burrill to 800. The Indian
appropriation bill, covering fifty.two printed
pages, WAS taken up, rapidly read and passed
without discussion. The bill to incorporate the
Atlantic and Pacific Ship Railway Company was
under consideration when the Senate adjourned.
In the House the Speaker laid before that body
the bill for the refunding of direct war taxes,
referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Resolutions were presented and referred favor
ing the Miller pleuro-pneumonia bill and the bill
establishing agricultural experimental stations.
The bin appropriating slS2,0W for the payment
of what are known as Fourth of July claims
was taken up and passed after some discussion.
The House then went into Committee Of the
Whole on the diplomatic and consular bill, but
adjourned without action